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The Great Wherever

by Shannon Sanders

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Book of the Day, NPR · July 24, 2026

In 'The Great Wherever' and 'Country People,' city dwellers try out rural life

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A multigenerational story told through ghosts, in which a woman living in Washington, D.C. learns she has inherited her father's share of a family property — a piece of farmland in Tennessee — and confronts ancestral hauntings.

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